ColumnStore Naming Conventions

MariaDB ColumnStore naming conventions for usernames (64c max), tables, and columns (alphanumeric and underscore, ASCII-letter first), plus the reserved words specific to ColumnStore.

Overview

This lists the different naming conventions enforced by the column store, compared to the normal MariaDB naming conventions.

• Usernames: 64 characters (MariaDB has 80)

• Table and column names are restricted to alphanumeric and underscore only, i.e. "A-Z a-z 0-9 _".

• The first character of all table and column names should be an ASCII letter (a-z A-Z).

• ColumnStore reserves certain words that MariaDB does not, such as SELECT, CHAR and TABLE, so even wrapped in backticks these cannot be used.

Reserved Words

In addition to MariaDB Server reserved words, ColumnStore has additional reserved words that cannot be used as table names, column names or user defined variables, functions or stored procedure names.

Keyword
ACTION
ADD
ALTER
AUTO_INCREMENT
BIGINT
BIT
CASCADE
CHANGE
CHARACTER
CHARSET
CHECK
CLOB
COLUMN
COLUMNS
COMMENT
CONSTRAINT
CONSTRAINTS
CREATE
CURRENT_USER
DATETIME
DEC
DECIMAL
DEFERRED
DEFAULT
DEFERRABLE
DOUBLE
DROP
ENGINE
EXISTS
FOREIGN
FULL
IDB_BLOB
IDB_CHAR
IDB_DELETE
IDB_FLOAT
IDB_INT
IF
IMMEDIATE
INDEX
INITIALLY
INTEGER
KEY
MATCH
MAX_ROWS
MIN_ROWS
MODIFY
NO
NOT
NULL_TOK
NUMBER
NUMERIC
ON
PARTIAL
PRECISION
PRIMARY
REAL
REFERENCES
RENAME
RESTRICT
SESSION_USER
SET
SMALLINT
SYSTEM_USER
TABLE
TIME
TINYINT
TO
TRUNCATE
UNIQUE
UNSIGNED
UPDATE
USER
VARBINARY
VARCHAR
VARYING
WITH
ZONE

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